Additional charges were filed Thursday against a man who, according to investigators, ran from police attempting to serve an arrest warrant this week and was armed with a knife when authorities apprehended him at a home in Latrobe.
The manhunt started Tuesday night when Latrobe and Rostraver police teamed up to serve the warrant on Spring Street in Latrobe on Shawn Michael Prince, 29.
Rostraver police accuse him of assaulting his estranged wife in a parking lot Jan. 4.
Police said he ran from them and they spent several hours searching for him without success.
On Wednesday, deputies with the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office’s fugitive unit attempting to find Prince were led back to Spring Street in Latrobe. They summoned help from Latrobe, Greensburg and state police and found barricades set up at the front and bedroom doors of a house, according to the sheriff’s office.
After learning Prince was armed with a knife and had self-inflicted cuts, authorities said they sent pepper spray into the bedroom through a window.
They forced entry into the bedroom and used a Taser, according to the sheriff’s office. Prince was taken to a medical facility before going to the Westmoreland County Prison, where he remains without bail on charges in the domestic case.
He was arraigned Thursday morning on charges of simple assault, reckless endangerment and harassment. A Jan. 16 preliminary hearing is set.
Later in the day, charges of burglary, criminal trespass and flight to avoid apprehension were filed in connection with Wednesday’s incident. Prince had not been arraigned in that case and didn’t have an attorney listed in online court records.
Prince had been free on $25,000 bond in an October kidnapping case filed by Scottdale police. He returned to Pennsylvania on Dec. 11 after being found in Kentucky in early October with his then-wife, who had been reported missing after a domestic incident in Scottdale.
Court records indicate he spent three days in the Westmoreland County Prison before posting $25,000 through a bondsman and was released Dec. 14. A Jan. 28 preliminary hearing is scheduled in that case.
